[mythtv-users] Trying to compile MythTV from source (and VDPAU support in particular)

[Andrey Zhunev]

Hi All,

I am using MythTV + Fedora for several years now. It's the best
HTPC solution I saw so far and I really appreciate the work of
developers and community to make it even better.

Recently I decided to try CentOS 6 as a new OS for my home server
(which is at the same time a mythbackend and a mythfrontend in one
of the 2 rooms). I set up a test machine for that, so I'm free to test
the "bleeding edge" of MythTV development. Therefore, I want to try
compiling MythTV myself. It's my first try and I'm not very
experienced in Linux, so I have more questions than answers. I read
some online guides, but most of them are outdated (written for older
versions of MythTV). 

At this step I'm mostly missing the "proper" configure parameters that
I need to put in order to get MythTV that is close to what I'm used to
(from Fedora's RPMFusion repositories). I read the 'configure
--help', but it's still not obvious what I need, exactly.

So I would appreciate if you could point me to an up to date guide to
compile MythTV from source.


One particular question, though. I tried to add VDPAU support, but it
seems I can't. Despite '--enable-vdpau' parameter, the 'configure' returns:

"VDPAU support: no"

I have NVidia drivers (from atrpms) installed. I don't have
VDPAU-capable video adapter installed at the moment (using built-in
Intel video), may this be a problem?


-- 
Best regards,
 Andrey